Hector Luis Palma Salazar

Hector Luis "El Guero" Palma Salazar (25 December 1940-) was the co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquin Guzman Loera.

Biography
Hector Luis Palma Salazar was born in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico on 25 December 1940, and he worked as a car thief and as a gunman for Guadalajara Cartel boss Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. After the loss of a large cocaine shipment, Palma was spared, while his partner Eduardo Retamoza was killed. He decided to defect to Joaquin Guzman Loera's rival Sinaloa Cartel, and he became a co-leader alongside Guzman and Adrian Gomez Gonzalez. On 23 June 1995, he was arrested when his jet crash-landed en route to a wedding party, and he served 9 years in a maximum-security prison in the United States before being extradited to Mexico in 2016. He was then interned at the Altiplano Prison for killing two police officers.